POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gross Domestic Product, Nationstates, International Monetary Fund

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: smardon

Document Summary

Ways of organizing power: state, nation and sovereignty. The state (pg 24: distinction between the term state and gov, most people use gov and state interchangeable but there is difference. Public provisioning of services, lowest percent of state expenditure: size of states as that is manifested in different government policies, varies in a major way. Government: makes decisions and rules over state institutions for a particular period of time, not permanent state of institutions, governments come and go with elections they are changed, trudeau government, trump administration. Sovereignty (pg 26: principle that states are the highest authority for their population and territory and are not subject to any external authority, degree in which state institutions within a given territory have autonomy and independence. Imperialism: certain states which control other states so that their sovereignty is compromised: ex. 2: divided sovereignty: no single source of authority and power, myriad sources of power and authority: nobles, vassals, catholic church (all had diff.